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Saturday, 26 October 2013

Punishment Due to Ascribing Plurality to God

LESSON # 67 FROM HOLY QUR’AN

BAQARAH – 2 (The Cow)

Punishment Due to Ascribing Plurality to
God

Verse – 54 of 286, Section – 6
(Part- 1)

And when Moses
said unto his people: O my people! Ye have wronged yourselves by your
choosing of the calf (for worship), so turn in penitence to your Creator, and
kill (the guilty) yourselves. That will be best for you with your Creator and
He will relent toward you. Lo! He is the Relenting, the Merciful.

Li-Qawmihii – (unto his people, to His nation), in
this verse aim from li-Qawmihii is those particular persons who prostrated the
calf supposing their worshipped.

Zalamtum – (you have wronged, you have lost) it
means that they involved again in plurality leaving the Oneness of God
Almighty. How might be more than it loss of a person over him?

Faqtuluuu‘anfusakum – So kill (the guilty) yourselves. It signifies
towards the people who did not prostrate the calf they should kill them who
prostrated it. The scholars have commented that there were three groups in the
children of Israel:

•Those persons who did not prostrate the
calf and forbade the others not to prostrate it. They were pious persons.

•Those people who prostrated.

•It was a group who did not prostrate
themselves but they did not forbid others from prostrating.

So the pious
people were commanded to kill them who prostrated. In fact the after wards two
groups deserved the punishment.

Khay-rul-lakum – it is best for you. It aims that when
you will kill one an other, you will become sacred from the filth of sin and
will get absolution and freedom.

In this verse God Almighty tells the children of
Israel, “You could not remain on the straight path in the absence of the
Prophet (peace be upon Him), involved in plurality and idol worshipping. You
have lost much due to this deed of yours. Now it is its punishment that you
kill each other yourselves. When the children of Israel admitted the order of God Almighty, then they were relented and the
God, the Most high accepted their penitence. Success in this world and on the
Day of Resurrection for the human being is in obeying the Orders of God
Almighty wishing either he knows or doesn’t know its philosophy and advisability.
And if with error, forgetfulness or in-intentionally he has mistaken, then he
should be ready every time for acceptance and correctness.